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Abstraction, often a result of reducing distance and focus to eliminate context, can also be realized by instead expanding context and allowing the landscape to express itself in larger terms. A reimagining of space, shape, scale, and detail can be formed somewhere between 40 inches and 400 feet. These images are desert landscapes, primarily dry lake beds. Tracks are formed by vehicles in some of these photos, wind, water, and heat are the forces that underlie all of them. Seen from above, these patterns, textures, and subtle colors reveal the richness of environments generally considered sterile and uninteresting, save to weekend warriors in their steel chariots. The misuse of the land by off-road vehicles ironically creates a delicate beauty unimagined by the motoring "artists." The inhospitable desert will grudgingly reveal its subtle and delicate motif when the conceit of human eye level is relinquished.